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Professor Robert Holzmann, November 2010 Professor Robert Holzmann is the Research Director of the Labor Mobility Program (Marseille Center for Mediterranean Integration) and the Financial Literacy & Education Program (Russia Trust Fund) of the World Bank.

Before joining the World Bank he was Professor of Economics and the Director to the European Institute at the University of Saarland, Germany, Professor of Economics at the University of Vienna, and Senior Economist at the IMF and OECD. He has published 28 books and over 150 articles on social, fiscal and financial policy issues. While he was visiting New Zealand he gave a presentation, hosted by the Retirement Commission, on Bringing financial literacy and education to low and middle income countries: the need to review, adjust, and extend current wisdom.